She'd been saving the money, wrapped in fire-proof material,﻿﻿ for years to leave it to her son.

Her house, flattened by the massive tsunami and the remains ravaged by fire, is gone. Debris is piled and scattered for more than half-a-mile. Her son and daughter-in-law, who live in a nearby evacuation center, tell her not to go back to the area because it is dangerous with debris. But she sneaks out anyway.

“I come here every day to look for it but I can’t find anything. Now there is nothing I can leave to my son when I die," she says.

She adds quietly: “There are too many people on the earth messing with nature…the gods may have punished us.”